Wendy Corsi Staub
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It's the perfect home for the perfect family: pretty Nora Howell, her handsome husband, their two teenage daughters, and lovable dog. As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, they expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light, and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved. Soon, peculiar things begin happening. The pug is nosing...
2) Sleepwalker
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Nightwatcher thrillers volume 2
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2012.
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When someone starts savagely murdering women near her home, Allison Taylor Mackenna, a survivor of another serial killer, finds her life in danger once again, and worries that her husband, Mack, may be the guilty party.
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Mundy's Landing volume 1
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In a quaint little town with a bloody past, a schoolteacher must face her own dark secrets as a devious killer draws near in this crime series debut. The razor’s gleaming blade slices effortlessly through skin and tendon, and he relishes the final anguished moments of his prey. There’s only one thing he prizes more: their long, silken strands of red hair. But these women are merely stand-ins…a prelude to his ultimate victim. Nestled in New...
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After agreeing to stay in Lily Dale through the winter as caretakers of the Valley View Guesthouse and its feline residents, widowed mom Bella Jordan and her son Max are looking forward to the peaceful off-season after a hectic summer. That is until the medium next door, Odelia Lauder, recruits Bella to host a destination wedding for the world's most petulant bride, Johneen Maynard, a friend of Odelia's granddaughter. Things take an even more stressful...
7) Dying Breath
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While vacationing at the Jersey Shore with her teenage daughter and husband, Cam Hastings is forced to play a twisted game with a serial killer after she has a vision of a missing child that hits too close to home.
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After the death of her husband, Bella Jordan and her son need a fresh start. But on their way to stay with family in Chicago, they stop in Lily Dale, New York, and a storm forces them to spend the night. Brimming with kooky psychics and mediums, Lily Dale is just the kind of quirky little town Bella's late husband always talked about settling down in. So when the local hotelier, Leona, passes away, Bella agrees to step in and help temporarily. The...
10) Last to know
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Townsend Heights is the perfect small town, the sort of peaceful, suburban existence Tasha Banks dreamed of living when she left her fast-paced career for full-time motherhood. But now, Tasha's perfect dream is turning into a terrifying nightmare. Someone is targeting women in Townsend Heights--and not just any women. A serial killer is searching out a particular kind of prey...young, stay-at-home mothers...exactly like Tasha.
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c2005
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At thirty-nine Peyton Somerset has an enviable life, with a thriving advertising career and a beautiful Manhattan apartment. And now she's going to have the one thing she wants most--a baby. Peyton's biological clock went off just as her fiance took off, leaving her at the altar. So Peyton's going it alone. Already, she's making plans for the little one inside her....buying the layette, daydreaming, and worrying over the littlest things. That's only...
12) Don't scream
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Ten years after they covered up the tragic death of sorority pledge Rachel Lorant, four women discover that someone knows their secret when they begin receiving terrifying messages and grisly gifts, trapping them in a dangerous game with a twisted killer.
13) Dead silence
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Foundlings volume 2
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2019
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An investigative genealogist and a NYPD detective find their work intertwining in the case of a mute child.
14) Prose and cons
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2021.
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Young widow Bella Jordan investigates a mystery with a literary twist in this charming, magical small-town cozy mystery from New York Times bestseller, Wendy Corsi Staub. It's been nine months since widowed mom Bella Jordan and her young son Max moved to Lily Dale, the quirky, close-knit New York community populated by people who can speak to the dead... if one believes in that kind of thing. Now she counts Valley View, the guesthouse she runs, as...
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[2023]
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J.J., Molly, and Leila had once been inseparable, but it's been a long time since college, and life, not to mention distance, have disrupted the former roommates' friendship. When the three reunite for a birthday weekend in Las Vegas, the lottery ticket they buy on a whim has the winning numbers, giving them a billion-dollar windfall. Shell-shocked, they turn to Shea Daniels, a 'sudden wealth manager,' who promises to guide them through the pitfalls...
16) She loves me not
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[2003]
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She loves me ... she loves me not.
When a homemade, heart-shaped valentine with no signature shows up in Rose Larrabee's mailbox, she is surprised to say the least-as a widow and mother of two young children, she has little time for romance. But what one might mistake for a sweet gift is really a terrifying reminder of the secret she shares with two other women ... a secret that has deadly consequences.
I want her ... I want her dead.
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17) Hell to pay
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Live to tell thrillers volume 3
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c2011
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The third book in Staub's exceptional suspense trilogy-which she began with the Mary Higgins Clark Award-nominated Live to Tell, and continued with Scared to Death, winner of the Westchester Library Associations Washington Irving Book Award-Hell to Pay revisits two married survivors of an unspeakable childhood nightmare fifteen years later, whose lives are shattered once again by dark secrets and a terrible vengeance unleashed by an unexpected Act...
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2022.
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New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is back, with a new heart-warming cozy mystery set in the magical village of Lily Dale
In the quirky, picturesque lakeside community of Lily Dale, where the residents can talk to the dead, young widow Bella Jordan is the lone skeptic among believers. She doesn't believe in ghosts . . . but after a year in the village, she would admit that her new friends do sometimes seem to know impossible things.
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19) Live to tell
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[2010]
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As Lauren Walsh tries to protect her children from her messy divorce from her cheating husband, she becomes the target of a cold-blooded mastermind who reveals to her an unimaginable secret that he will never let her live to tell.
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Mundy's Landing volume 2
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[2016]
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Hair neatly braided, hands serenely clasped, eyes closed, the young woman appeared to be sound asleep. But the peaceful tableau was a madman's handiwork. Beneath the covers, her white nightgown was spattered in blood. At daybreak, a horrified family would discover her corpse tucked into their guest room. The cunning killer would strike again ... and again ... before vanishing into the mists of time. A century ago, the Sleeping Beauty murders terrified...